Silver Pigs: A Detective Novel in Ancient Rome - Softcover

Davis, Lindsey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345369076 ISBN 13: 9780345369079

Publisher: Fawcett, 1991

Synopsis

Winner of the Best First Novel award from the Authors' Club, and debut of the Didius Falco mystery series.
It is A.D. 70, when Roman P.I. Marcus Didius Falco runs into comely Sosia Camillina on the steps of the Forum. It seems she's being chased by a few unsavories for a stockpile of silver pigs--silver ingots--but Falco wants more information. What he gets is a whiff of treason and a one-way ticket to his own funeral pyre....
"It has everything: mystery, pace, wit, fascinating scholarship, and above all, two protagonists for whom, by the end, I feel genuine affection, and want to meet again."
Ellis Peters

About this title

From the Publisher

Lindsey Davis' books manage to invoke a film noir atmosphere in Ancient Rome, which if you think about it is not so far from 1930s California -- a lot of sunshine on the surface with something much darker underneath. Her hero (and I use the term lightly) is Marcus Didius Falco, who becomes a private eye for the Emperor. In SILVER PIGS, the first book in the series, we are introduced to Falco's mother and the rest of his family -- along with a group of high-born Romans. Davis never loses the sense that we are in a very different time and place, but the personal relationships and situations that Falco gets himself into are timeless.

Amelia Zalcman: Director, Contracts Administration

About the Author

Lindsey Davis now writes full time. She is the author of eleven Falco novels and one historical love story, A Course of Honour. Two For the Lions won the first CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger.
From the Hardcover edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Fawcett
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0345369076
• ISBN 13: 9780345369079
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 241